(medicine) the treatment of disease (especially cancer) by exposure to a radioactive substance
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Shock therapy
treatment of certain psychotic states by the administration of shocks that are followed by convulsions
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To move somewhat like an ambling horse; to go easily or without hard shocks.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: treatment, certain, psychotic, states, administration.a drug used to treat or prevent convulsions (as in epilepsy)
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: treatment, certain, psychotic, states, administration.a drug used to treat or prevent convulsions (as in epilepsy)
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: treatment, certain, psychotic, states, administration.a drug used to treat or prevent convulsions (as in epilepsy)
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: treatment, certain, psychotic, states, administration.the number that is represented as a one followed by 12 zeros; in the United Kingdom the usage followed in the United States is frequen…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: treatment, certain, psychotic, states, administration.A writing under seal, by which a person binds himself, his heirs, executors, and administrators, to pay a certain sum on or before a f…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: treatment, certain, psychotic, states, administration.(law) a judicial division of a state or the United States (so-called because originally judges traveled and held court in different lo…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: treatment, certain, psychotic, states, administration.Of or pertaining to the government of the eleven Southern States of the United States which (1860-1865) attempted to establish an inde…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: treatment, certain, psychotic, states, administration.One who has convulsions; esp., one of a body of fanatics in France, early in the eighteenth century, who went into convulsions under t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: treatment, certain, psychotic, states, administration.Producing, or attended with, convulsions or spasms; characterized by convulsions; convulsionary.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: treatment, certain, psychotic, states, administration.Medical or hygienic care; remedial treatment of disease; a method of medical treatment; as, to use the water cure.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: treatment, certain, psychotic, states, administration.any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal fro…
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